"Go, Old Man, go!"

A new moon is Nature's way of telling you to do something else for a while.

I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named Fu Manchu
And as I lay bleeding
Doc was re-reading
All those tests that implied that I was dying
And he said "I've got good news; you're gonna live"
So then I started crying.

"Orevore Courier" was nominated for a "Best Individual Puzzle" XYZZY award. I'd be more than surprised if it won, but as they say, it is indeed an honor to be nominated. Polling takes place at http://www.xyzzynews.com/2007finalists.html.

"Orevore Courier" placed 8th out of 27, also earning a 3rd place "Miss Congeniality" nod in voting by the other authors. Another 6 years and 2 more entries should get me right up there at this rate, eh? A minimalist web page that includes the play-online option is up now at http://boutell. ( Read more... )

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The games of the 13th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition have been released at http://www.ifcomp.org/comp07/download.html

My entry is called "Orevore Courier".

Enjoy!

The boy made a round-trip back to school instead of a one-way trip home from his first day at kindergarten because a bureaucratic snafu put him on the wrong bus.

Actually, the Work In Progress is ready to be aggressively mangled, if anyone feels up to that. "Of all the pleasures in life, I think I like nit-picking the best."

I'd like to be creative and/or productive in the new year. It seems that my best work, such as it is, starts out with an inspirational challenge from someone else. So I'm looking for:

1: A sufficiently-constraining framework for my project
2: A convincing delusion that someone really wants to see the results of that project

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